Google Cloud Storage

Connect to a bucket in Google Cloud Storage (GCS) to browse and visualize your raster data in Felt.

This feature is only available to customers on the Enterprise plan. To upgrade, contact sales.

1. Click on the Library () in the toolbar

2. Click + New Source

3. Select Google Cloud Storage

4. Fill in the Connection Details

   1. Source Name: name of the source in Felt

   2. GS URI: a URL to a bucket in Google Cloud Storage, such as gs://my-storage-bucket/my_prefix. If the URL contains a prefix (in this example, my_prefix, Felt will only search for objects that start with it.

   3. Credentials: see the following Authentication section.

5. Who can see this source?: control access to this source within Felt

6. Click Connect

7. Once connected you will see a catalog of your data with previews for your new source

8. From here you can add any of these layers to your spatial dashboards!

Authentication

Grant Felt access to objects in private buckets by uploading a Service account JSON with access to your GCS bucket. To create a new service account, navigate to the IAM & Admin page of the Google Cloud Console and generate a JSON file for it in the Keys tab.

When creating the account, make sure to grant it access to your project for the Storage Object Viewer role.

Metadata extraction

Felt can extract metadata properties from the filepaths to objects in your bucket. Learn more in Organizing your raster data.